The Home advocate. (Farmerville, La.) 1885-1???, 1887-06-10


understand it. They cannot understand it.
But Christ sees all over it, and all throug h 1t.
he not only counts the teas and records the
SroanS, but before the tar. started, before
the groans began, Christ saw the inmost
h dag place of YOUR sorrow; and He takes it,
and H. weighs it. and He measures it, and
he ptl-s 1t with an al-absprbng pity. Bone
o. our bone. Flesh Of ON te>h Heart OF
or heart. SORROW OF our sorrow.
AS long as he remembers LaZarusS grave
He will stand by you in the cemetery. As
long as He remembers His own heart break
He will stand toy you in the laceration of your
affections. When He forgets the footsore
way, the sleepless nights, the weary body,
the exhausted mind, the awful cross, the
solemn grave. then He will forget you but
not until then.
Often when we were in trouble We sent for
our friends; but they We're far away, they
could not get to us. We wrote to them
Come II ght away" or telegraphed: Take
the next train" They came at last, yet were
great while in coming. or perhaps were too
late. But Christ is always near-before you,
behind you, within you. No mother ever threw
her arms around her child with such warmth
ana ecstasy OfaifectiOn as Christ has shown to-
wards you. Clos" at hand-nearer than the
stall upon which you lean, nearer than the
cup you put to your lip. nearer than the
handkerchief with which YOU wipe away your
tears-l preach him an ever present. all SYM
pdtuiLlLo, com lGtSslOntN' Jesus. no" tdl
you stay away one moment from Him with
Your griefs, TO now Go and tell Jesus.
1t is often that our friends have no power
to relieve Us. They would very much ike to
doit but they cannot dsentanglc our tnances;
They cannot cure our sickness and raise our
dead: but glory be to God that He to whom
the disciples went has all power i'll heaven and
on earth and ut our call He will balk our ca
lamites, and, at just the right time, in the
presence OF an applau,lng earth and a re
sounding heaven. viii raise our dead
He will do it. He is mightier than Herod.
He is swifter than the storm. He is grander
than the sea He is vaster than eternity.
And every sword Of GofS omnipotence will
leap from its scabhard and all the resources
of lnfinty be exhausted, rather than that
Gods child shall not be delivered when he
cries to him for rescue
Suppose your child was in trouble; how
much would you endure to get him outi You
would go through any hardship You would
say: Il don't care what it will cost. l must
get him out of that trouble"
Do You think God is not so good father rs
! you. Seeing you in trouble. and having
all power will He not stretch ont His arm
and deliver you! He will He is mighty to
save. He can level the mountain and divide
the sea and can cXtinguiSh the fire and save
the soul. Not dim of eye not weak of arm, not
feeble Of resources but with all eternity and
the universe at His feet. Go and tell Jesus viii
dew of the grave; We who cannot look up: We
whose hearts are dried with the breath of Il
sirocco; in the name of the religion of Jesus
Christ, which lifts every burden. and wipes
away every tear. and delivers every captive,
and hgtens every darkness, | emplore you
now 90 and tell Jesus.
A little child went with her father, a sea
Captain, to sea. and when the first storm
came the little child was very much fright
cncl, and i'll the night rushed out of the
cabin and said: "Where is father: where is
! fathers" Then they told her: Father Is on
deck guiding the vessel and watching the
storm" The little child Immediately re-
turned to her berth and said Its
all right, for fathers on deck" Oh,
| We who are tossed and driven in this
/ world. up by the mountains aud down by the
valleys, and at your wits end, | want you to
| know the Lord God is guiding the ship. Your
Father is on deck. He will bring YOU through
I the darkness into the harbor. Trust in the
! Lord Go aud tell Jesus Let ne say that
| if you do not, you will have no comfort here,
and YOU will forever he an outcast and a
! wandercr. Your death Will be a sorrow.
Your eternity will be a disaster.
But if YOU 60 to Him for pardon and sym
J pathy, all is we'll Everything will brighten
! up. and JOY will come to the heart and sor-.
/ row will depart; Your sin will be forgiven
and your foot will touch the upward path;
ana the slini.g ni3s GERS that report g. I'VE
wha. Is done me. mere VIII ,e.l II un.l .le 49,
| if now, with contrition and full trustfl n
ness of soul, you will only go and tell Jesus \
! But am oppressed, when look over tfrs
! audience, at the prospect that some may TfDt
/ take this counsel, and so away unblessedl l
! cannot help asking: What will be the destiny
of these people: So never care whether it
come into the'text or not, | never leave my
place on this platform without telling them
that now is the accepted time, and to some,
perhaps, the last time.
/ XerXeS looked off on his army. There
| were two million men-perhaps the finest
army ever marshaled. Xerxes rode along
the lines, reviewed them, came back, stood on
some high point. looked off upon the two
million men. and burst into tears. At that
moment when everybody supposed he would
be in the greatest exultation, he broke down
in grief. They asked him why he
wept. All" he said, II weep at
the thought that SO soon all this host
will be dead" So I stand looking off
| upon this host of immortal men and women,
and realize the fact, as perhaps no man can,
unless he has been in similar position, that
! soon the places which know you now will
know you no more, and you will be gone
whittier? whittier! There is stirring idea
which the poet put in very peculiar verso
when he said:
Ills not for man to trihe: l.ic is brief, :.
| And sin is here:
Our age is but falling leaf -.
A dropping tear.
Not many lives, but only one have We
| One, only one;
How sacred should that one life ever b.